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30 Years Ago: Def Leppard Guitarist Steve Clark Dies On the morning of Jan. 8, 1991, Def Leppard guitarist Phil Collen received a phone call from his manager Cliff Burnstein, bearing news he had been dreading for close to five years. His best friend, co-guitarist Steve Clark, had died while sleeping on a couch. He was 30 years old. An autopsy revealed the Clark died from an unintentional overdose of alcohol, Valium and Codeine. “He had been drinking and he cracked a rib earlier on,” Collen ...

DMC on the message and meaning of the Queens icons... Run-DMC are undoubtedly one of the biggest names in music. Named Greatest Hip-Hop Group of All Time by MTV in 2007; in 2009 they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the second rap group to do so. (with Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five being the first.) Run-DMC’s history is steeped in groundbreaking moments for black music artists: The first rap group to go Gold, Platinum and Multi-Platinum, the fi...

It brings them back into the fore and also breaks run-dmc in a much bigger way because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip-hop. ♪ walk this way ♪ talk this way >> run dmcs latest album titled "raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. well be doing for tv what f.m. did for radio. >> there are some that have >> the album is called "licensed accused your videos of being to ill." thats a stupid name soft porn. for an album...

"raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> the album is called "licensed to ill." thats a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you dont want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ you got to fight for your right to party ♪ >> t...

"raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> the album is called "licensed to ill." thats a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you dont want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ you got to fight for your right to party ♪ >> t...

♪ there were three young ladies ♪ >> aerosmith had sort of fallen off the map at that point. it brings them back into the fore and also breaks run-dmc in a much bigger way because then you start to get more white kids listening to hip-hop. ♪ walk this way ♪ talk this way >> run dmcs latest album entitled "raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> their album is called "licensed to ill." thats a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up l...

♪ talk this way >> run dmcs latest album titled "raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> the album is called "licensed to ill." thats a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you dont want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪...

>> run dmcs latest album entitled "raising hell" has sold more than a million copies in just 13 weeks. a first for a rap record. >> their album is called "licensed to ill." thats a stupid name for an album. ♪ wake up late for school, man, you dont want to go ♪ ♪ you ask your mom please but she still says no ♪ >> hip-hop was our baby. this was our culture. this was our music. we created it. and then, here come the beastie boys and we were afraid we were going to lose it. ♪ you got to fi...

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Play that again. ♪ dont push me because im close to the edge ♪ >> everyone knew the game had changed, and it really opened the floodgates for the next generation of rappers. ♪ its not michael jackson ♪ and this is not thriller >> when run-dmc came out, they were taking rock n roll music and putting it together with hip-hop and making something brand-new out of it. ♪ you cant touch me with an eight-foot pole ♪ ♪ and i even made the devil sell me his soul ♪ >> run-dmc kind of led z...